From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When using st.o in combination with megaraid.o and trying to write to a tape device bad behavior happens. No error is given and everything appears to go smoothly, even without a tape in the drive. That just can't be right. My fix was to use megaraid_2002.o and it seems to not suffer from the bug. It errors when you write to /dev/st0 with no tape. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): megaraid: v1.18 (Release Date: Wed Dec 4 11:33:08 EST 2002) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. load megaraid.o and st.o 2. run tar cvfp /dev/st0 /usr with no tape in drive 3. everything appears to go fine Actual Results: No error was reported that there was no medium in the drive. Additional info:
The megaraid2 driver should be used for tape support. The older megaraid driver is being phased out be LSI Logic.